Wichita eagle., 1887-06-15
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From England to Egypt Especially for
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From England to Egypt Especially for
the Eagle
To the Editor Of the Eagle:
DUBLIN IRELAND, May 29.-The next
day after our visit to Muckroso Abbey the
services of onr new Hibernian friend Pat
Healy and his jaunting car were again
brought into requisition and as the drive
before us was long one and over road
somewhat rough and billy it was deemed
expedient to hire more transportation. As
Pat belonged by right of discovery to the
Colonel / was forced to dispense with his
valuable service. not however until he had
secured for me another Pat, whose sur
name in pure Irish was Mccarthy. As a
genuine specimen of the South Country
Irishman, SO far as native wit and efficien-
cy as guide goes, the other Pat was not
his superior. The richness of his hrogue
would throw amateur Irishman of stage
pro clivities into commissions. He pointed
out all objects of interest on the route as
we bowled along, relating legend after
legend and anecdotes sometimes in poetry
sometimes in prose, until we reached the
hut where Kate Kearney was borne and
the steep mountain side where she attended
her goats. ''She was the purtiest girl in
all Ireland" he said, "when she stood upon
the mountain top fornist the house her
hair reached to the foot of it, full 200 feet. !"
Another Kate Kearney, the grand daugh-
ter of she whom Moore has immortalized,
and herself a grandmother now lives here
now and dispenses mountain dew" to the
thirsty tourists. Pats definition of noun
tain dew was whisky and goats milk. }"
She is comely looking old lady and when
1 purchased photo of her humble abode
with herself in the door way she gave me
her benediction. Before arriving at the
Karney Cottage however we were confront
ed at an ancient stone bridge. by rough
looking crowd of men and boys on horse
back. From this motley crew-that re-
minded me of squad of bushwhackers-
our guides were to be selected to conduct
us on horseback through the Gap of Dun
loe This meant that our party of five
two men, two women and boy were to
leave the jaunting cars at certain point,
and mount these miserable ponies for
ride of four miles through the mountain
pass. The guides would walk, and return
after conducting us through the pass to the
upper lake. The jaunting cars and the
two Pats would also return the way we
came and meet us in the evening at Ross
Castle on Tough Leane, or the bower of
the three lakes of Killarney. We were to
dismount at Lord Brandon's cottage, and
there enter two-oared skiff for a ride of
fifteen miles through the lakes
From the time we left Kate Kearney's
cottage we were beset by beggers, the most
persistent in their demands think I have
ever met. At the entrance to the Gap of
Dunloe was small hamlet. Here we dis
mounted from the jaunting cars. and were
invited by lady, neatly dressed, to enter
one of the houses and examine some bric-a-
brac manufactured on the spot from arbu-
tus wood and bog oak. She showed us
some of the most exquisite specimens of
hand carved and inlaid work l have ever
seen. There was one cabinet in particular
that struck my fancy. and I thought l
would buy it and express it as a ccntribu-
ton to the EAGLE sanctum. After opening
all the doors and drawers and secret places
and admiring the harps and shamrocks and
myrtle and ivy designs SO deftly inlaid,. l
felt certain l would buy it, and was
already lingering the shillings in my pocket
and making mental calculation of how
many of them would make ten dollars,
When 1 modestly asked her the price. Be
fore answering my question, however, she
went on to say that Lord SO and so had or
dered one and that Ex-Mayor Grace, of
New York, and the Governor Of Louisiana
each had one, and I began to get weary.
Finally, she came to the point and init
mated that she would like to introduce this
work into our part of the country II might
have the cabinet for 40 pounds, and the
duty on it would be only three pounds
more" gave her to understand that she
certainly mistook me for another gentle
man, that my name was not Gould.
Well, we mounted the "critters." and
with parting injunction from the two
Pats not to absorb any of the mountain
dew" which the native women carried in
bottles under their arms, for said Pat, with
an earnest look, when whisky and goats
milk is carried under a wOman's arm until
it gets warm and sweaty it is not fit for
man nor haste to drink" The animals we
rode, whilst they were sure footed, had
never tasted anything but grass since they
were weaned, however, they we're In keep
ing with everything else in this part OF the
world. except the scenery which was per
fectly grand A hut was pointed out to us
as the home once in q time of 1.-The Colleen
Bawn,' and place in the lake where she